Religious Right Economics

Something I think needs to be brought to more peoples attention regarding Huckabee campaigning for 23% sales tax, which is posted over in LBN.

"As reported in the Washington Post, August 4, 2004, J. Dennis Hastert, (R-Ill.) the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives published a book that suggests abolishing the Internal Revenue Service and replacing the current tax system with either a flat tax, a national sales tax or a value-added tax. Are Hastert's taxes meeting the criteria of Biblical taxes? Curiously, they are all taxes that would favor the wealthy and burden the poor."

1)Starve the Federal Government through Tax Cuts
2)Shift Education and Welfare to Churches
3)End Government Regulation
4)Increase Material Wealth, Plunder Natural Resources
5)The Calvinist Origins of "Dominion" Economics

http://www.theocracywatch.org/rr_economics.htm

Y'know, I'm reminded of the tax structure in France before the French Revolution erupted in violent fashion. The code had become so corrupt and cluttered with exemptions and credits for the landed gentry that the working poor were paying a higher percentage of their income in taxes than the landed gentry.

As a result, this happened:





The peasants ultimately rebelled along with the bourgeoisie. They made the rich lose their heads. As the saying goes, "They ate the rich."

dont ya know, life is a bitch." Krokus.

Well it seems the nuts are going to make their plan a little more public with Huckabee's recent statement. They do not pay much attention to history nor do they give a shit, they just want to dominate.

A 23% national sales tax put on everything including food. This is how Wall Street and the conservatives plan to pay off the debt. while, by the way, giving the rich and corporations MORE tax cuts. It's an outrage and every single person in this country should have this glued on their face until they read it!

From Chapter 9 of the President's Advisory Panel on Federal Tax Reform

• Although a program could be designed to reduce the burden of a retail sales tax on lower-income and middle-income taxpayers by providing cash grants, such cash grants would represent a new entitlement program – by far the largest in American history. Adjusting the distribution of the burden of the retail sales tax through a cash grant program would cost approximately $600 billion to $780 billion per year and make most American families dependent on monthly checks from the federal government for a substantial portion of their incomes. The Panel concluded that such a cash grant program would inappropriately increase the size and scope of government.

The Panel also had additional concerns with replacing the current tax system with a retail sales tax:
• Even with favorable assumptions, a retail sales tax on a broad base with a cash grant program would require a tax rate of at least 34 percent, and likely higher over time if the base erodes, creating incentives for significant tax evasion. A discussion of the range of potential estimates of the tax rate is provided later in this chapter.

• The federal administrative burden for a retail sales tax may be similar to the burden under the current system. A federal agency, such as the IRS, would be required to administer the tax in order to ensure adequate collection of federal revenues and uniform enforcement of the rules and regulations underlying the tax. Indeed, two types of administrations would be required – one to collect the tax and another to keep track of the personal information that would be necessary to determine the size of the taxpayer’s cash grant.

• Taxpayers likely would continue to file state income tax returns, which would limit the potential simplification gains from replacing the federal income tax system with a retail sales tax.

http://www.taxreformpanel.gov/final-report/TaxReform_Ch9.pdf

Don't get me wrong... This sales tax would only be admitting they are fucking everyone to benefit the few at the top.

But people need to wake the Hell up and realize that the current Tax Code has been transformed over the last thirty or so years into a regressive tax to enslave and destroy the majority in this country to benefit only the few at the top. Even though more people benefited under Clinton, the income gap still grew under Clinton as well.